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5 unusual facts about Red Army Faction


Frederick Kroesen

Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the "Kommando Gudrun Ensslin" of the Red Army Faction (aka Baader-Meinhof Gang).

Hitler's Children

Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang is a 1977 book about the West German militant left-wing group, the Red Army Faction (also known as The Baader-Meinhof Gang), by the British author Jillian Becker.

Johannes Wohnseifer

He often draws reference to the German history of his youth, such as the 1972 Summer Olympics and the Red Army Faction.

Lennart Geijer

Geijer was Swedish Minister of Justice during the occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm in 1975, when Holger Meins's commando, of the armed left extremist organization Red Army Faction (RAF) took the West German Embassy in Skarpö Street in Gärdet in Stockholm.

Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert

In 1973, he was made deputy head of the Anti-Terrorist Branch, where he became an expert on European terrorist groups such as Baader-Meinhof, and gave lectures on hostage negotiation and counter-terrorism tactics.


Adelheid Schulz

Adelheid "Heidi" Schulz (born 31 March 1955 in Lörrach) was a member of the West German terrorist Red Army Faction.

Extrajudicial punishment

The deaths of the leaders of the leftist urban guerilla group, the Red Army Faction, Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe in West Germany are regarded as extrajudicial killings by some of those in the German radical left movements, a theory partly based on the testimony of Irmgard Möller.

Irmgard Möller

Irmgard Möller (also spelled Irmgard Moeller) (born 13 May 1947, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former German militant and was a member of the Red Army Faction (RAF).

Klaus Rainer Röhl

Ulrike later co-founded the Red Army Faction, also known as the RAF or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, together with Andreas Baader.

Left-wing terrorism

In Western Europe, notable groups included the West German Red Army Faction (RAF), the Italian Red Brigades, the French Action Directe (AD), and the Belgian Communist Combatant Cells (CCC).

Michael Newrzella

During a joint operation in Bad Kleinen by GSG 9, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Federal Border Police (Bundes- Grenzschutz, BGS) to arrest Red Army Faction members Wolfgang Grams and Birgit Hogefeld he was shot by Grams who later died from his wounds as well.

Paul Löbe

At the time of Löbe's state funeral at the Rathaus Schöneberg on 9 August 1967, Andreas Baader (the later Red Army Faction militant), the author Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others in a satirical rally carried a coffin bearing the words “SENAT” to the front of the city hall.

Rote Hilfe e.V.

In the 1970s, it worked on behalf of Red Army Faction prisoners, and a few RH members went on to join the RAF or similar groups (e.g., Angelika Speitel and Hans-Joachim Klein).

Rudolf Seiters

On 27 June 1993, in a German Police raid in the train station of the mecklenburgian town of Bad Kleinen, both the wanted terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF), Wolfgang Grams, and a GSG 9 agent, Michael Newrzella, lost their lives.


see also

Meinhof

Ulrike Meinhof (1934–1976), West German left-wing militant, co-founder of the Red Army Faction, daughter of Werner Meinhof

Paul Bloomquist

Bloomquist was killed by a bombing attack by the Red Army Faction on the Headquarters of the V Corps in the IG Farben Building in Frankfurt.